Voor de Kroon

• Fix floris V voice pitch
  
• Fix poelarm damage bonus to player always being multiplied even when not mounted
  
• Fix crash when hit by arrow
  
• Fix ranged units using wrong fire mode during siege
  
• Fix attacking siege archers not firing
  

• Fix a couple of crashes during battles
  

• Implement better performing unit management system
  
• Improve aggressiveness of all units
  
• Improve performance on modular officers by merging their meshes
  
• Optimize and refactor unit and cavalry movement
  
• Improve cavalry steering behavior
  
• Reduce desaturation on officer portraits
  
• Remove friendly outline from fleeing units
  
• Apply polearm cavalry damage to player
  
• Add wedge formation for cavalry
  
• Add circle formation for infantry
  
• Imrpove archer skirmish timing and distance
  
• Add officer level up and death widgets to container so they don't overlap
  
• Add unit type callouts when selecting a unit
  
• Add alternate player camera option for on foot
  
• Increase chance of militia during quick battles
  
• Adjust formation behavior before charging
  
• Change quick battle date range to 1265-1295
  
• Increase responsiveness of menu
  
• Remove hardcore mode for campaign
  
• Fix loading screen tips
  
• Fix AI cavalry cycle charge tactics
  
• Fix enemy cavalry cheapshotting your archers too much
  
• Fix faction leader dead having too high morale impact during battle
  

• Add missing weapon selection widget to faction editor
  
• Clean up saving and loading part of customization interface
  
• Redirect user to workshop agreement when it's not accepted yet on upload
  
• Add emblem to ailettes
  
• Fix aillete brightness
  
• Fix crash in setting menu
  
• Fix missing audio clips in voice 2 charge commands
  
• Fix performance issues related to combined officer equipment
  
• Fix missing lods on new units causing heavy fps drops
  
• Fix heraldry colors not selected correctly when opening heraldry editor
  

🛡 Faction Customization Overhaul:

• Create and Customize: Design new factions from the ground up. From the appearance of your lord to the buildings your faction can erect – the choice is now yours!
  
• Heraldry Import: Take your faction personalization a step further by importing custom image assets for heraldry. For a step-by-step guide on how to seamlessly integrate your emblem textures, check out the Custom Heraldry Import Guide.
  
• Expanded Capabilities: Choose specific units for recruitment, replace any existing faction with a custom one, and enjoy an advanced character system for lords and officers with random equipment and appearance features.
  

🗣 Dynamic Voice System Enhancement:

• Voice Sets Diversity: Introducing three distinct voice sets, elevating the in-game atmosphere. Players will find two Dutch and one English voice set for a richer auditory experience.
  
• Linguistic Fidelity: Officers now randomly draw from their faction's allowed voice sets. This allows factions to actually have different spoken languages on the battlefield!
  

🛡 New Armor & Models:

• Historical Accuracy: All feudal armor is revamped to be era-appropriate, introducing a variety of new helmets, chainmail armor, and even painted helmets for units.
  

🌦 Additional Features & Enhancements:

• Weather Dynamics: Experience battles under a semi-clouded sky.
  
• Ultra-Quality Lighting: For those seeking to burns their computer to the ground, there is now an ultra-quality lighting option.
  
• Loading Screen Wisdom: Tips have been updated to match the current gameplay mechanics.
  

🔧 Technical Improvements & Bug Fixes:

• Faction Framework: A complete rewrite now supports full customization.
  
• Fixed Gameplay Issues: Several bugs and small improvements have been made.
  

• Add steamworkshop support for custom factions
  
• Add ability to import custom image assets for heraldry
  
• Allow player to select what buildings a faction can build
  
• Implement 3 new voices (Two Dutch, one English)
  
• Add voice pitch system
  
• Add dynamic voice system for officers and lords
  
• Allow player to specifically select what units a faction can recruit
  
• Allow player to replace any faction with a custom faction
  
• Add dynamic character system for lords and officers with random equipment and appearance
  
• Add advanced character customization
  
• Add updated feudal models
  
• Add semi clouded weather type
  
• Add ultra quality lighting option, disabled by default
  
• Update loading screen tips to current gameplay
  
• Rewrite Faction framework to support complete customization
  
• Fix rename boxes allowing special characters
  
• Fix proxy player getting frozen after hit by trebuchet projectile
  
• Fix AI building repair logic after siege
  
• Fix archer volley timing
  
• Fix AI upgrading buildings during a siege
  

• Fix settlement list in unit details missing scrollbar
  
• Fix crash related to non existing player lookup in campaign
  

• Lower foodcost of conscripts to 0
  
• Lower foodcost of Amstel retinue unit to 1
  
• Lower monthly upkeep of Amstel retinue unit to 50 Silver
  
• Add slightly more health to ladder units
  
• Increase chance of polearm units rearing a horse
  
• Recruiting units costs population
  
• Rdeduce round castle construction time to 6 turns
  
• Reduce square castle construction time to 8 turns
  
• Add under construction meshes to castles
  
• Change resource cart to wheat cart pulled by ox
  
• Increase range of ranged units targeting custom targets by 25%
  
• Remove mounted health bonus from light cavalry
  
• Redesign campaign stats interface
  
• Redesign recruitment window
  
• Increase border scroll threshold for screen edges during campaign
  
• Add helpful tooltips to campaign UI elements
  
• Add building tree browser to game
  
• Nerf manor farm silver income
  
• Improve user feedback on settlement send list
  
• Rebalance Frisian starting economy
  
• Change frisian heavy unit to sergeants with mail horses
  
• Add Frisian hunters unit
  
• Revamp Frisian banner carriers
  
• Revamp look of Frisian units
  
• Enable settlement specific heraldry for Frisian units
  
• Add more gameplay prompts to give feedback on why things can not be done
  
• Change battle dialog text of close button to close when opening siege defense
  
• Disallow archer AI skirmish phase for small armies to speed up early campaign combat
  
• SLightly increase stormram speed
  
• Add experiemental dynamic environment destruction
  
• Remove two front ladders from square castle when wall is breached
  
• Add reaction to nearby trebuchet impact to units
  
• Prevent important units like officers from manning siege equipment
  
• Add small fade to officer dead icon on after battle screen
  
• Don't show officer dead icon when unit is killed during battle
  
• Add user feedback when unpossessing a unit
  
• Remove sally out button during campaign siege battles
  
• Change around some Frisian town heraldry
  
• Rename church of St. Mary to Chapel of St. Mary
  
• Reduce desaturation of building images on cimematic color mode
  
• Hide lead charge option when the player army would instantly route on battle start
  
• Change algorithm to determine wehn AI player would surrender
  
• Unit level now slightly influences max morale
  
• Set archers use forced fire by default during siege battles
  
• Remove game ending on negative food resource
  
• Fix horse footprints during winter not showing
  
• Fix player blood when hit by arrow
  
• Fix stormram operating units having wrong rotation
  
• Fix attack direction for two handed commander weapons
  
• Fix knights not being knocked from horse during jousting
  
• Fix Player dying to explosions or fire when posessing a ranged unit
  
• Fix bug causing crash when looking up non existing faction name
  
• Fix AI quick battle siege engine build behavior
  
• Fix communal terp building not giving storage space
  
• Fix helmet plume not getting colored
  
• Fix AI not building siege engines during campaign sieges
  
• Fix reinforcements from campaign carrying over to quick battles
  
• Fix officer renaming
  
• Fix siege engine units still manning siege engine when sallying out
  
• Fix siege engines getting garbage collected
  
• Fix horses stacking on top of eachother in some cases
  

• Add menu option to toggle off specific unit settlement heraldry
  
• Show playable factions in campaign list
  
• Enable fire arrows and trebuchets by default with recommended realism settings
  
• Increase size of arrow impacts on all color modes
  
• Fix UI shields not displaying right heraldry on after battle screen
  
• Fix officer cards not fading correctly on after battle screen
  

• Improve AI infantry tactics against cavalry
  
• Improve cavalry pathfinding
  
• Increase time of battle AI archer phase when executed
  
• add Middelburch
  
• Add Voerne
  
• Add Haerlem
  
• Add Woerden
  
• Add sconhoven
  
• Set use english naming enabled by default
  
• Show notification if officer gained a level during battle
  
• Show notification when officer has died in battle
  
• Add new realism mode images
  
• Rewrite settlement connection algorithm
  
• Redesign quick battle and campaign menu's
  
• Add new main menu background
  
• Add tooltip with public order specification
  
• Add tooltip with settlement income specification
  
• Correctly update player income info on campaign UI
  
• Adjust cavalry speed
  
• make campaign AI more aggressive
  
• Update menu graphics
  
• Add performance menu option for horse footprints: disabled by default
  
• Add footprints to all cavalry as ultra setting
  
• Player earns xp for commanded formation when making kills
  
• Improve campaign AI recruitment
  
• Slightly increase chainmail base health
  
• Rebalance weapon damage values for some units
  
• Allow palyer to freely place ladder in campaign based on ladders built
  
• Add ability to accept level 5 militia officer into knighthood when he has at least 8 loyalty
  
• Add unit history log to unit detail screen
  
• When a horse rears it knocks back nearby units
  
• Show town heraldry on militia units during battle
  
• Show town heraldry on settlement flag
  
• Add options to play as faction leader or commander in quick battles
  
• Add campaign performance options
  
• Adjust AI building behavior to new system
  
• Remove global player level system
  
• Show officer equipment in unit detail screen
  
• Tie policy names to use english naming setting
  
• Increase settlement population scale
  
• When officer dies in battle, replace with new officer, reset leveling progress
  
• Make enemy faction leader harder to kill
  
• Show unit rank and faction leader status on units cards
  
• Show rank and faction leader status in unit detail panel
  
• Only attackers can wait for night when starting battle
  
• AI sometimes waits for night when attacking player based on army composition
  
• Increase allowed characters during renaming to 18
  
• Add identifier to units with their origin
  
• Add town related heraldry to all units during campaign
  
• Simplify unit cost
  
• Simplify unit recruitment
  
• Rename some stuff back to english for easier readability of interface
  
• Show traveling units between settlements on campaign map
  
• Show icon on settlement flag when an officer has low loyalty
  
• Add officer assassination system, replace officer with new officer with higher loyalty
  
• Loyalty gives morale boost or penalty when really high or really low
  
• Add officer loyalty system: officer will gain and lose loyalty based on actions during campaign, this is visible in unit log
  
• Add resource indicator for stockpile modifier to building info tooltip
  
• Unifiy all icons used for silver pennies
  
• Player can't run anymore when he has taken too much permanent arrow damage
  
• Settlements get +1 public order when connected to a friendly settlement with a high public order
  
• Add ministerial foot soldier unit
  
• Add some extra deploy strategies for AI armies
  
• Increase range in which player can't mount horse with enemies nearby
  
• Add hover effect to various campaign UI elements
  
• Increase stockpile size per upgrade level, simplify stockpile
  
• Add unique flag for building types
  
• restructure all building upgrade trees
  
• All settlements have specific biomes with building slots based on landscape
  
• Implement slot based building upgrades
  
• Bind couch lance button to left mouse by default
  
• Rebalance unit XP gain
  
• Redesign settlement management UI
  
• Make summer sky color more realistic
  
• Add fire effect to settlements under siege
  
• Add recommended settings button to realism mode select
  
• Buildings get damaged during sieges and will need to be repaired
  
• Decrease overall size of campaign clouds
  
• Change look of campaign map
  
• Remove oversized rivers and replace with smaller rivers on campaign map
  
• Make high end feudal units rare and more expensive
  
• Tweak starting condition difficulty values
  
• Decrease chance AI commander will build a trebuchet
  
• Change name of 'defensive' quick battle army style to 'ranged'
  
• Add truce between Utrecht and Holland at campaign start
  
• Fix skirmish battles sometimes not spawning units
  
• Fix skirmish menu state widget
  
• Fix turn delay when checking if castle can still be under siege
  
• Fix AI building trebuchets when not having required buildings
  
• Fix units stalling when charging during a siege
  
• Fix officers of initial garrison having wrong culture
  
• Fix player health when dismounting
  
• Fix reinforcement box location in attack dialog
  
• Fix defense screen to battle loading screen Z-index
  
• Fix being able to capture enemy faction leader after defensive victory
  
• Fix campaign AI still constructing buildings when under siege
  
• Fix formation data being scrambled in some edge cases
  
• Fix 4 infantry and one cavalry AI unit deployment
  
• Fix 4 cavalry and one infantry unit deployment
  
• Fix hit arrows dissapearing after mounting/dismounting horse
  
• Fix player sieging self during campaign in some extreme cases
  
• Fix crash related to missing player index during campaign
  
• Fix not being able to siege settlement after defense
  
• Fix reinforcement spawn location in Alcmare
  
• Fix bug causing wrong faction leader to be placed in settlement
  
• Fix player being able to mount horse in sally out battle
  

• Add 3d clouds to campaign map
  
• Add info to settlement dialog about who is sieging the settlement
  
• Rebellions can't start in castle settlements anymore
  
• Tweak dense unit formations outside of siege battles
  
• Add some safety measures to loops at the start of siege battles to prevent CPU stalls
  
• Halt food production during winter instead of summer
  
• Fix proxy player not dying
  
• Fix AI producing units in settlements under siege
  
• Fix units turning left and right really fast
  
• Fix crash when player is attacked during a siege
  
• Fix annexate and assasination options staying greyed out when meeting the requirements
  
• Fix occupy empty settlement logic and UI
  
• Fix player spawning on horse during sally out battles
  
• Fix not being able to open settlement menu after accepting surrender
  
• Fix not being able to build ladders when stormram is built